Replication Data for: Information Credibility and Responses to Corruption: A Replication and Extension in Argentina

Existing research shows that survey respondents are sensitive to the source of information about political corruption and respond more strongly to information from more credible sources. This behavior occurs more frequently among the politically sophisticated. In a nationwide survey in Argentina, we successfully replicate results originally found in a study in Brazil. In addition, we examine whether citizens process information about corruption differently depending on their partisan identities. At odds with our initial expectations, we find that copartisans, opposition partisans, and other/non-partisans distinguish between information sources in very similar ways. These results suggest that even though partisanship affects baseline assessments of political candidates, citizens of all types are sensitive to the credibility of information they receive about political corruption.

已有研究表明，问卷调查受访者对政治腐败相关信息的来源具有敏感性，且对可信度更高的信息来源所提供的内容会做出更强烈的反应。这类行为在政治素养较高的人群中更为常见。在阿根廷开展的一项全国性问卷调查中，我们成功复现了最初在巴西一项研究中得到的结论。此外，我们探究了公民是否会根据自身党派身份，以不同方式处理腐败相关信息。与我们最初的预期相悖，我们发现同党派人士、反对党人士以及无党派/其他党派人士在区分信息来源时的方式极为相似。上述结果表明，尽管党派立场会影响民众对政治候选人的基线评估，但各类民众均会对其收到的政治腐败相关信息的可信度保持敏感。